Butane hash oil is a hot product on the marijuana market, offering consumers a quick and powerful high, but its production comes with risks.

The Oregonian's examination of butane hash oil in Oregon revealed that butane-fueled have sent 17 people to the Legacy Oregon Burn Center with serious injuries in the past 16 months, including one man who later died. Many of the explosions that led to injuries went unreported to police and fire agencies; Using public records and press accounts, The Oregonian was able to document nine explosions statewide since 2011.

-- BHO is often consumed in a process called "dabbing," which involves a specially equipped bong and a torch. A tiny piece of hash oil is placed in a super hot compartment of the bong, where it vaporizes. The consumer then inhales the vapor, which offers a powerful high.

-- Kevin Tveisme, 28, was in his Gresham garage with a buddy last spring making a popular form of hash oil, something he'd learned to do from watching YouTube clips and talking with friends. It wasn't his first time using butane, a cheap and flammable solvent used in lighters, to extract tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, from marijuana flowers and leaves. But this time it went horribly wrong.

-- The Oregonian documented nine major BHO-related blasts in Oregon since 2011, four of them in homes or hotel rooms where children, including a newborn, were present. In one case last year, a 12-year-old girl suffered multiple broken bones after leaping from the second floor of a Medford apartment building rocked by a butane explosion.